Anyone else think that Microsoft is not losing any
money at all when it comes to

Anyone else think that Microsoft is not losing any money at all when it comes to the Xbox brand? It has been said that Xbox 1 lost a lot of money. Xbox 360 has lost money at first, but is now about even or making money when it comes to hardware sales.

Let's take a look at some other things though. Xbox 360 has been out for 7 years. At $40 per year (a bare minimum estimate) that's $280 for each person who has Xbox live. There are also the controllers which cost $49.99 retail price. Let's not forget the dlc from hundreds of games which Microsoft gets a share of.

These people are rolling is dough. They could easiliy release a powerful console that could run the Samaritan tech demo in real time at the cost of $500.

Supposedly Microsoft charges an obscene amount of money to display ads to you via the dash. That along with their policy of monetizing everything assures you that they are pulling as much as possible. There is a reason that they have updates the dashes with more and more ads every revision.

Those costs are paid for by developers and outside advertisers by them paying for ads on the dashboard.

The biggest tile on the Home tab generates $71,400+ dollars a day, half a million dollars a week. That's enough to pay for every marketplace server's operation fees for a very long time, and that's just ONE WEEK worth of cash income, it's $26 Million a year just for that ONE TILE and they charge for every tile where you see a game, movie, music, or product advertised.

They also charge developers for licensing just to make games on the system, they charge 4 to 5 figures each for devkits, and they charge a per-gigabyte bandwidth charge for every file on the marketplace, as well as taking a percentage cut of every transaction on the marketplace.

The marketplace is making more money than you think, and most of it is coming from developers. Also don't forget how many people pay for Gold, that's pure profit.

Considering mostly everyone I know has gone through multiple consoles I'd say they are probably doing ok. I'm on number 4 myself.

Who actually buys 4 consoles. With a 3 year warranty you would have bought 2 at the most.

Now PS3 on the other hand... with the flimsy one year warranty and shabby fist build, it cost me $957 to have one working PS3. With Xbox I never had to buy a replacement or pay for a repair.---Thrash or be Thrashed